Banoffee Pie Lasagna Is Basically the Most Decadent Banana Pudding You'll Ever Have

Instead of kittens clinging to a tree branch or stock shots of cubicle-mates high-fiving, more motivational posters should feature a giant photo of Banoffee Pie. Beyond being freakin' delicious to look at, it's a pretty great reminder that incredible things can come out of colossal failures.

The dish—a combination of dulce de leche, bananas, whipped cream and shaved chocolate, all piled onto a pie crust—exists solely because of a near-failure. Ian Dowding, a chef in Sussex, England, had been trying to make an Blum's Coffee Toffee Pie, a notoriously unreliable recipe that often produced a granite-hard, inedible layer of toffee. After fighting with one too many misses, his sister told him about boiling sweetened condensed milk until it gets to a soft caramel-like state, and at his boss's suggestion, added bananas. Voila! Banoffi—or, as we know it today, Banoffee—Pie was born.